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naked. Antliers without tails. Styles of the hermaphrodite flowers 
with the branches truncate or appendiculate. Achenes narrow or 
turbinate, 4-5 angled or wdth 8 or many ribs, and crowned with palese, 
rarely awns or set??, rarely bald. Leaves opposite or alternate. 
Involucre bracts 1-2 seriate or rarely 3-4 seriate, herbaceous or mem- 
branous, Corolla-disk usually yellow, rays of the same colour or 
various. 
Subtribe Tagetinem . — luvolucral bracts l-seriate, equal, sprinkled 
with oil-glands. Achenes narrow and much striated. Pappus 
paleaceous, aristose, setose or rarely none. Example: Tagetes ; one 
species known as the French Marigold. 
Subtribe Eulielenlem. — ^Involucre often with broad bracts, of 2 or 
few series, subcqual or imbricate. Achenes turbinate or oblong, silky 
villose. Example : Gaillardia^ a showy genus often cultivated for the 
sake of its flowers. 
Tribe 7. ANi'iiEMTDE^s. — Elower-heads heterogainous radiate or 
discifurmis, or wanting rays and homogamous. Involucral bracts 2 or 
many seriate, dry or scarious at the tips. Receptacle paleaceous or 
naked. Anthers wdtliout tails. Style-branches truncate at the apex. 
Pappus none or a crowm of short palese. LeaA^es most frequently 
alternate. Disk-flowers yellow, ray-flowers variously coloured. 
Examples: GhrgsantJiemum, Centipeda, Tamcetum. The first genus is 
well known ; the second is composed of 'weed}'^ plants which have some 
medicinal reputation ; the latter contains the well-known Tansy. 
Tribe 8. Senecionide.e. — Elower-heads heterogainous radiate or 
disciformis, or wanting rays and homogamous. Involucral bracts 
usually 1-seriate and subequal, with a few short outer ones at their 
base, rarely many-seriate. Receptacle often naked. Anthers tailless 
or with 2 short points at the base. Style-branches of hermaphrodite 
flowers often penicillate, truncate or appendiculate. Achenes various. 
Pappus of fine hairs, rarely bald. Leaves alternate orrarely opposite. 
Corolla of disk yellow, rays also usuall}’^ yelioAv but various. 
Subtribe Evsenecionecc-. — Involucral bracts 1-2-scriate, free nearly 
to the base, nsually with a few smaller outer ones. Style-branches of 
the hermaphrodite flowers truncate or obtuse, penicillate or with hairy 
tips. Examples : Oynura^ Cineraria., Senecio. This subtribe, it will 
be seen, is composed of some of the most beautiful plants in cultivation, 
while others are most troublesome weeds. 
Tribe 9. CATjExnuLACEJR. — Elower-heads hctcrogamous, radiate. 
Involucral bracts 1-2-seriate, narrow, subequah Hcceptacle naked. 
Anthers -with a inucronate-subcaudate base. Style-branches of the 
hermaphrodite flowers truncate, in the sterile flowers undivided. 
Achenes (often lieteroinorphous or thick) bald or rarely er()wned with a 
little woolly tomentum. Leaves usually alternate or radical. Example : 
Calendula. The genus quoted contains the common pot Marigold. 
Tribe 10. Ahctotii)EJ5. — Elower-heads radiate or wanting rays 
and homogamous. Involucral bracts many-seriate, imbricate, points 
sometimes broad and scarious, sometimes very acute or spiuescent. 
Anthers with an entire or sagittate base, the auricles obtuse or acute, 
never tailed. Style-branches of the fertile hermaphrodite flowers 
sometimes somewhat broad with ronnded points, often united high 
up, or the steiile stylos undivided. Achenes often thick, bald, or 
pappus paleaceous or coroniformis. Leaves radical or alternate. 
